Filipino American community members advocated for naming the bridge and nearby park after Dr. Jose Rizal, a Filipino physician, novelist, and nationalist. He advocated for Philippine independence from Spain, called for the political rights and equality of the Filipino people, and was ultimately martyred in 1896. Formal dedication occurred on June 7, 1981, by then-Mayor Charles Royer and Philippine Consul General Ernesto A. Querubin. Visit the nearby Dr. Jose Rizal...

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Home to the Pacific Medical Center, the historic Beacon Hill Tower was built in 1933 by the U.S. government as a Marine Hospital Service facility. It became the first U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Hospital in the Seattle area and then a public development authority in 1981. Future renovations envision a mixed-income, multi-family apartment development with approximately 300 units and community-oriented services.

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In 1996, 12 years after it was originally commissioned, “Equality” was dedicated at the 1-90 Viewpoint. One of the original artists, Don Scott, died before it was finished, and the artwork was redesigned by artists Rolon Bert Garner and Ken Leback. The artwork is comprised of 35 small granite houses on a grid set against a larger bronze house on a hill of grass. Amid the grid of houses is...

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In the early 1960s, the State Highway Department proposed a plan for 15 freeways across Seattle, the densest system of highways in the world. After witnessing the consequences of constructing the 1-5, Seattleites decided that enough was enough, and the Seattle Freeway Revolt, a grassroots, city-wide coalition, was created. After years of organizing, the activists succeeded. Seattle residents voted in 1972 to block the R.H. Thomson Expressway and the Bay...

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This 4,660-square-foot center is a central gathering place for Eritrean communities. At the time of its opening in 2003, more than 4,000 Eritreans lived in the greater Seattle area, with 300 families belonging to its parent organization, the Eritrean Association of Greater Seattle. When these families arrived in the early 1980s after fleeing decades of guerilla war in their homeland, many found a new place to start in the Rainier...

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The Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party was the first chapter outside California and second outside Oakland. Aaron Lloyd Dixon—then 19 years old—was appointed captain of the Seattle chapter by party co-founder Bobby Seale. The Seattle chapter’s free breakfast program eventually grew to five locations, serving an estimated 300,000 meals from 1969 to 1977.

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